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Re:The EU's Copyright Proposal Is Extremely Bad News for Eve... by microcolonel on Thursday June 07, 2018 @05:32PM (#17260468)
Because fair use is the only way 80% of Wikipedia images exist. This article requires coordinating with rights holders even for uses that constitute fair use. Wikipedia contains a very large amount of content for which the rights holders are not known, no longer communicate publicly, or do not care about communicating with random strangers who may not even be authorized to make agreements on behalf of WMF.

The "in cooperation with rights holders" bit is pivotal.

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Re:The EU's Copyright Proposal Is Extremely Bad News for Eve... by Doctor_Fegg on Thursday June 07, 2018 @05:53PM (#17260614)
Even before this proposal, Wikipedia would be flying very close to the wind on copyright were it hosted in the EU. "Fair use" is a US principle that isn't necessarily echoed in EU member states (the UK, for example, has a much more limited concept of "fair dealing").

It's notable that OpenStreetMap, which is hosted and governed in the UK, refuses to take data from Wikipedia because it believes it's tainted. (Specifically, Wikipedia says "you can get co-ordinates for articles by deriving them from Google Maps"[1], to which OSM says "nuh-uh".)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Obtaining_geographic...

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Re:The EU's Copyright Proposal Is Extremely Bad News for Eve... by beberlei on Thursday June 07, 2018 @06:29PM (#17260906)
But wikipedia is not for profit, it seems the law doesnt apply to it?
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Re:The EU's Copyright Proposal Is Extremely Bad News for Eve... by sparkzilla on Thursday June 07, 2018 @06:44PM (#17261014)
The Wikimedia Foundation is rolling in cash.
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Re:The EU's Copyright Proposal Is Extremely Bad News for Eve... by beberlei on Thursday June 07, 2018 @06:54PM (#17261091)
Fifa has billions of dollars, it is still not for profit.

Not for profit financially just means you cant give profits but have to reinvest it 100%

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